BY Sodiq Abdulfatah These days, parents have come to accept, quite painfully, that the reading culture of young children is so limited that there has to be some other way to engage with them, particularly in matters of education. They can spend hours watching cartoon on TV and playing music, but sparing a few minutes […]

By JAPHET ALAKAM The popular adage that “an old woman is never tired in the dance she knows” came to the fore last week when master printmaker, painter, sculptor and one of Africa’s best known and most highly respected artists, Bruce Onabrakpeya opened his latest solo exhibition titled Recent Experimental Prints, Paintings and Low Relief […]

Another history was made last Friday, when renowned female artist and writer, Sesu Tilley-Gyado emerged the overall winner of this year edition of the National Art Competition, annually organised by the African Artists’ Foundation(AAF) in collaboration with the Nigerian Breweries Plc.

Nobel laureate, Professor. Wole Soyinka, is not somebody you meet every time, not to talk of interviewing. But at one of the programmes of the just concluded Ake Art and Books Festival held at June 12 Cultural centre, Kuto, Abeokuta, tagged In the Shadow of memory: An audience with Wole Soyinka, afforded four undergraduates the opportunity to meet him and ask questions on his muse, activism, religious views, the Pyrates Confraternity and others. Vanguard Art was there too. Excerpts:

After his last successful solo exhibition in Lagos tagged The Mask, multi talented Nigerian born photographer, Lakin Ogunbanwo is set to thrill Nigerian art lovers in another conceptual photography exhibition tagged The Muse.